I saw a guy a while back pumping very fast into a 3-4ft wave. As he was meeting the wave energy to link, he did a sharp yaw turn to burn a lot of his forward momentum. I’m guessing the sideways mast acted as a brake.
I wanted to see if anyone has any technique tips for doing this. Seems like you have to be very committed to the movement to pull it off and also looks like a guaranteed taco if you screw it up. I’m always on pretty high aspect foils that won’t roll on a dime and often have speed to burn during prone. It would be cool if I could intentionally do a slide to scrub speed like you would on a skateboard.
Is there any gear that’s going to get in the way of this? I’m guessing you’d need a pretty flat tail with no winglets.